Gilgamesh
Epic of Gilgamesh. A fragment of a version of this well-known text was discovered at the site of Megiddo in northern Israel. From here, about the Amarna Tablets in Canaan.
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Flood Stories***
Difficulties in the Noah Story – A great article at TheTorah.com is A Textual Study of Noah’s Flood. The following lists were extracted from there. Below those paragraphs are the verses viewed as J and those viewed as P side-by-side, providing internally consistent texts to show how they form a continuous story. The Noah account […]
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Extracts from the BAS article Biblical Monsters – Seven mysterious creatures of the biblical world By Nathan Steinmeyer, February 04, 2025.
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From OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT [Large language model]. https://chatgpt.com Prompt – What parts do critical historical scholars say are parallel in the creation myths: In Genesis, Enuma Elish, the Atrahasis, and Gilgamesh? Cite all sources. Critical historical scholars have identified several parallels among the creation narratives in Genesis, the Enuma Elish, the Atrahasis Epic, and the […]
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Enuma Elish Enuma Elish: The Oldest Written Creation Myth The Enuma Elish is composed of close to one thousand lines of cuneiform script that have often been compared with the Old Testament creation story in Genesis I. The story features a great battle between gods Marduk and Tiamat that results in the creation of the Earth and mankind. The […]
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